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As Wheels Fall Off ...

Kurt Philip Behm

A simulated consciousness
beyond our will to choose
Defying Einstein, Bohr, and Hume
where logic stands defused

The matter at hand can’t matter
when rules unwrite themselves
An order once thought preordained
—entropic and indwelt

(The New Room: August, 2023)
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Scheme XXXA XXXA X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 266
Words 44
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1
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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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